Pieter Schout on Horseback

• Pieter Schout on Horseback
• Portrait of Pieter Schout (1640-69)

SK-A-697

signature and date, on the saddle, in ligated monogram: ‘TDK.1660’

Equestrian portraits were traditionally the reserve of princes. Accordingly, in the Netherlands very few equestrian portraits were made, except for the court. Only a handful of burghers had themselves immortalized on horseback. Pieter Schout was one such citizen who assumed a princely air. He was bailiff – administrative officer – of Hagestein on the River Lek.

C. van der Bas, 'The Muilman Collection: the progressive taste of an eighteenth-century banking family', Simiolus 32, nr. 2/3 (2006), p. 173, afb. p. 174.

painter: Thomas de Keyser (signed by artist)

1660

olieverf op koper

• height 82.8 cm x width 67.2 cm
• height 86.1 cm x width 69.6 cm
• height 104.4 cm x width 89 cm

Jonkheer J.S.H. van de Poll Bequest, Amsterdam

bequest 1880

Public domain

? Commissioned by or for the sitter; by descent to Willem Ferdinand Mogge Muilman (1778-1849), Amsterdam;{Smith IX, 1842, p. 206, no. 198.} ? his wife, Magdalena Antonia Muilman (1788-1853), Amsterdam; ? her daughter, Anna Maria van de Poll-Mogge Muilman (1811-78), Amsterdam; her stepson, Jacobus Salomon Hendrik van de Poll (1837-80), Amsterdam; by whom bequeathed to the museum together with 49 other paintings, 1880{RANH, ARS, IS, inv. 162, no. 367 (21 June 1880); RANH, ARM, Kop, inv. 39, p. 288, no. 36 (26 June 1880); RANH, ARM, Kop, inv. 39, p. 288, no. 37 (29 June 1880); RANH, ARS, IS, inv. 162, no. 370 (30 June 1880); RANH, ARM, Kop, inv. 39, p. 289, no. 39 (3 July 1880); RANH, ARM, Kop, inv. 39, p. 289, no. 41 (9 July 1880); RANH, ARS, IS, inv. 162, no. 371 (15 July 1880); RANH, ARM, Kop, inv. 39, p. 291, no. 50 (10 August 1880). Provenance reconstructed by Cornelis van der Bas, 2003.}

C. van der Bas, 'The Muilman Collection: the progressive taste of an eighteenth-century banking family', Simiolus 32, nr. 2/3 (2006), p. 173, afb. p. 174.

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